Beier, Sofie, 2009, Thesis, Typeface Legibility: Towards defining familiarity PhD thesis, Royal College of Art.
Abstract or Description: | The aim of the project is to investigate the influence of fa- miliarity on reading. Three new fonts were created in order to examine the familiarity of fonts that readers could not have seen before. Each of the new fonts contains lowercase letters with fa- miliar and unfamiliar skeleton variations. The different skeleton variations were tested with distance threshold and time thresh- old methods in order to account for differences in visibility. This investigation helped create final typeface designs where the fa- miliar and unfamiliar skeleton variations have roughly similar and good performance. The typefaces were later applied as the test material in the familiarity investigation. |
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Qualification Name: | PhD |
Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies > W210 Graphic Design > W213 Visual Communication |
School or Centre: | School of Communication |
Copyright Holders: | Sofie Beier |
Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2012 16:51 |
Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2018 14:25 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/957 |
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